Faculty
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Lisa Merchant, PhD, LMFT
Department Chair
Associate Professor
Program Director, Marriage and Family Therapy Program
Joanna Méndez-Pounds, PhD, LMFT-S
Assistant Professor
Clinic Director, Marriage and Family Institute
Heidi Morris, PhD, LPC, CFLE
Associate Professor
Director of the Paul and Gladys Faulkner Center for Marriage and Family